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“Lack of Stats” -pr0n for the Last Week
There’s been a rash of stats-porn, and anti-stats April fool porn, this week on UK Political Blogs. Stats are interesting (because traffic is one of the first two items people ask about when trying to assess a blog), but the comments about blogs vs big media are a far more interesting current issue - especially with “Politics Portals” (my term) with their origins in the blogosphere on the way.
Since this is Free for all Friday again I thought I would make my contrarian contribution.
Wardman Wire Stats summary: Tankety Tank
The Wardman Wire stats have gone the other way as a result of our friendly hacker earlier this week. To illustrate, here are a selection of tweets from earlier this week from me:
Average Goog visits each day last month: about 200. Yesterday: 6. Today so far: 0. What Cialis hacks do for you.
Currently rebuilding blog on different account, and transferring 6000 or so files.
Wonder how long it will take to get Goog friendly again. Guessing 4-8 weeks.
Interesting RSS clickthroughs have tanked too by half. 70 today. Would usually be 200-300 over day.Wonder if came from finding feed via Goog
Never mind. Content is king … eventually. I hope.
Overall, reckon traffic is down by a third to 40%. Grr.
(Aside:my Twitter feed, full of fun, wisdom, and foolishness, is here).
The impact seems to be that traffic has tanked by about 40% - that is down from roughly 1500-1700 uniques a day to something just under 1000.
Does it matter? Yes and No. I’m not hugely bothered about the absolute numbers (which have roughly gone back to where they were in December), but I am concerned that the segment of traffic that has vanished is the “general public” segment - who come largely via Google. Some of those are people who “bounce in and out”; others are “non-politicos” who are interested in particular questions.
One of the aims I have for the blog is to see if it is possible to break through (or over, or under, or round) the walls of the “political blogging ghetto”. That project has been put back some way.
Do I See - A Visitor from Google?
This afternoon I spotted my first Google visitor for a few days. Just one. It could be a straw in the wind, or a fish that escaped the Google net.
I’ve managed to lock down the implanted hacker for the last 24-48 hours (I’ll tell you how if you email me - not posting it), and they could be coming back.
Time will tell.
Wrapping-Up
In the meantime, the blog is still moving. Didn’t make it last night, but I am nearly there.
Just in case you need help getting to sleep after drinking 257 cups of coffee, read this comments thread.
The thing that I find even more interesting is that the Devil is using the rephrasing “pr0n ” in his title - as if it will mitigate for the 699 appearances of “c*nt” in his archives. He may have a good reason.
For the record: Dale: 10 c*nts. Fawkes: er.. 1840 c*nts. Wardman: 0 c*nts (and 3 tw*ts - 2 duplicates in reaction to Mr Gordon’s 2007 budget, and one quoting somebody else about Egyptian politics). Hamish the Greek: 157 c*nts. Bloggerheads shades Iain on this metric: 17 c*nts.
The Devil will be mortified at being on 699 not 700, and will probably call me one to make up the numbers. Iain Dale’s are probably all in the comments. Guido’s are probably mainly in the comments too. And that is probably more than enough. I want my tea.
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